Heel plate



' a. P. HOGANf HEEL PLATE. FILED SEPT. 2091920.

WWW/[MIA Patented Mar. 27, 1923.

UNITED V s'r FF I ' enonennnoean or crfIoAGd'ILLI'NoIs; f

Application filed September 20, 1920. Serial No, 411,459.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. HOGAN, a citizen of the United Statea'residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of'Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel Plates, of which the following is a description.

My invention belongs to that general. class of devices designed to be attached to. theheels of boots and. shoes to obviate the change in form of the heel due to thewear caused by habituallytreadingupon one par ticular point thereof, and thus preventing it from running over because of such wear, and which is also designed to be attached to shoes in which the wear has already occurred for the purpose of straightening up the heel and relieving the wear at that point.

It has for its objects. device of this character,- which while performing the functions.

set forth,.will, when employed upon the so called rubber heels in general use, also at the sametime heels. 7

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combi nation of parts herein shown anddescribed and more particularly pointed out in the claims. v "ii In the drawings, wherein like reference preserve all the resiliency of the characters indicate like or corresponding parts,

Fig. 1 indicates a bottom plan view of a shoe or boot heel with my improved heel plate in place;

Fig. 2 is a sectional View of line 2-2 of Fig. 1 illustrating the mode of attachment to a rubber heel and the preferred form of the plate in cross section;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank of the plate before it is struck up;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the plate on line 1-4 of Fig.1;

Fig. .5 is a transverse section of the plate on line 5-5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of a slightly modified form of plate;

Fig. 7 is a sectional view of 77 of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a plan view of a slightly modified form. p

In the drawings, 1 indicates a boot or shoe heel of conventional form to which my improved device is adapted to be attached. 2 is a blank of any suitable material, preferably metallic, which constitutes the body of 'tially in" theplane of the bottom the device. This blank can be 'struck l any suitable manner, perforating the same as at 2-2 and pressing the: material above the opening downward, countersinking the same, asclearly shown in Fig. 5. :That is to,

say, the openings on'the'wearing side,as= shown by line 3-8 of Figs..2 and5, areof greater diameter than is the .bottom of those openings, and being thus countersunk to loosely receive the head 4 of the attaching screw or nail 5-so that a line in the plane of;

the outer face'of the head 4 will lie substan- 6 of the plate, asclearly shownin Fig.2. I

'By this means the plate will be securely heel, will yield with the rubber,:,as shown in held in place and when in use on a rubber! dotted lines in Fig. 2, the plate sliding loosely in the retaining device. Thus the plate protects the heelwithout sacrificing the resilient function thereofl The cutting out and perforating of the blank in the manner described may infsome J cases'be accomplished in'a-single operation, if preferred.-' 1 l .In the preferredconstruction, the forwardai edge of the plate is inclined upwardtoward the heel-of the shoeasat 7 (Figs. 2 and 4).

The plate. may. be slightly curved longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 5, and transversely,

as shown'in Fig. 4. This construction will I not interfere with the attaching of the plateupon a new or worn heel, and is particularly adapted to conform to the surface of a worn heel as it is secured in position. The

device is adapted to be attached either to a leather heel or a heel of a similar material,

or to a rubber heel, and when so attached,

of the heel.

I the plate into alignment with the lower face I v The method of attachment is simple. The 1 plate is placed in position upon the heel and the point occupied by the o enings or perforations 2 marked either with a pen knife or other suitable tool, and the heel is coun- I tersunk at that point to receive the extensions 9 of the plate. A nail or screw may then be driven at that point, but preferably a suitable awl will be employed to direct the course of the nail or screw. The head of the connecting member will then be driven firmly to its place with the plane of its outer face substantially in line with the bottom plane of the plate, as indicated in Fig. 2. Inthe preferred form the plate is slidingly supported on the attaching member or members.

The form shown in Fig. 8 is adaptedfor use on small heels, such as the so called French heels, and is positioned to level the heel up andovercome the tendency to run over.

The entire device is extremely simple in construction and effective in use.

Having thus described my invention, it is obvious that various immaterial modifications may be made in the same without departing from the spirit of my invention; hence I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form, construction, arrangement and combination of parts herein shown and described, or uses mentioned.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a rubber heel of a shoe device of the kind described, comprising an elongated blank having inner and outer parallel curved edges conforming to the curve of said heel and having convex ends joining said inner and outer curved edges, said blank being perforated for the reception of the attaching members, the material at the point of said perforations being pressed in beyond the plane of the lower surface of the plate and inclined in cross section to form countersunkportions adapted to be embedded in said heel, and the head of the cooperating securing member being positioned in the countersunk parts with the plane of its outer surface substantially below the wearing face of the plate, said blank being arched upwardly from end to end of said lower surface in a longitudinal direction. I

2. In combination with a rubber heel .of a shoe device of the kind described, comprising an elongated blank having inner and outer parallel curved edges conforming to the curve of said heel and having convex ends joining said inner and outer curved edges, said blank being perforated for the reception of the attaching member, the material at the point of said perforations being pressed in beyond the plane of the lower surface of the plate and inclined in cross section to form countersunk portions adapted to be embedded in said heel, and the head of the cooperating securing member being positioned in the countersunk parts with the plane of its outer surface substantially be low the wearing face of the plate, said blank being arched upwardly on its lower surface in both a longitudinal and in a transverse BERTHA HARTMANN. 

